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was watching top gear on tv last night and they had coulthard farking around in a 05 RBR car and man they look and sound great. I do miss the old V10 days. they were a sweet engine. The car looked great too. the cars look a bit cheap these days by comparison. :cool:

Probably old news to most now, but the other night I watched an Autocar vid where Chris Harris drove an '06 Red Bull at Silverstone and reckoned it would waste a Veyron with only 1/5 throttle. First time he really gets on it he says "it makes the Buggatti feel like a Mazda 2!"

if you can turn passenger laps in that thing for $99 count me in.

in other news I will be in europe later this year and currently deciding between Spa (end of aug) or Monza (early sept). Monza will be easiest as it already tees up with some plans and I'll be in italy at the time. But Spa is just another level all together but it would mean having to reschedule things a bit and mean going to belgium which is a bit of a punishment really. lol. anyone seen "In Bruge"? lol.

currently leaning towards monza. it will be cool to see all the tifosi out in force. I wonder if any of them still have love for schumacher?

on the plus side if I do monza it means before it I can scoot over to germany and get some laps in on the nurburgring. yeah baby!

oh, and I've just made the choice. fark watching at spa. I'd rather fang something around the 'ring instead. I may even forget going to the monza gp too and use the money for another day of ring and then just watch it in a bar in italy somewhere.

very excited about doing the ring. just need to decide what to drive?

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